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60% of the Chinese nation state that they don’t get enough sleep. And it’s the younger generation who are particularly failing to get enough shut-eye. Survey participants cited career worries and financial concerns as leading causes of their sleep battles. As an expat entrepreneur selling via a marketplace, it’s too easy to stay up working through the night. However, in doing so, you could be putting your health, relationships, and livelihood at risk.

A good night’s sleep
The National Sleep Foundation states that adults require between seven and nine hours of sleep every night. For optimum sleep, you should avoid using gadgets at least an hour before bed as they are linked to poor sleep. One aspect you should consider is the type of bedding you require. A mattress which suits your sleep style, preference, and any medical conditions you have will help you achieve good quality sleep. You should also ensure that you regularly flip your mattress to maximize its life

The M&Y group is proud to present the first I CAN! Life Skills Tournament, focused on the Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations. It was successfully held in Yew Chung International School of Shanghai, Central Park Campus, last Sunday with over 100 parents and special guests and 8 teams of students from various schools and countries.

The goal of the tournament was to bring awareness and boost critical thinking among the next generations by developing Life Skills and taking actions to make an impact, reaching the four Sustainable Development Goals we focused on: Zero Hunger, Gender Equality, Quality Education and Climate Action Goals.

The M&Y team believes that developing right skills at the young age will form authentic character and wholesome personality that will lead to successful life.

Margarita and Yuliana, founders of The M&Y group, both went through leadership programs as kids. Having experienced the positive results of personal development edu

Recently a new Chinese buzzword is headlined in medias, “Intellitax” (Intelligence Tax or IQ Tax), in Chinese characters, it’s called “智商税” (zhi shang shui). This is nothing to do with any tax technology instead it starts from a painful lesson that Chinese consumers paid for “overvalued” product or service affected by deceitful flowery words of advertising. Unfortunately not limited to shopping, “Intellitax” becomes a quite phenomenal public issues in marketing, entertainment, finance, even in education. In a Chinese saying “人傻钱多” (ren sha qian duo), it looks like an idiot is not tired by wasting money or being cheated, which reflects a crisis of trust behind impetuous and money driven social values.

While it was approaching Double 11 online shopping festival, the “Chinese-style” marketing in both Tmall and Taobao platforms played all kinds of “incentive cards” to

Since 2012, it discovers that some traditions and behaviors have exerted a profound impact on the values and way of life of the expat people today. It’s quite interesting to make a behavior comparison between local Chinese and expats group,

Until March of 2017, it says “Service” and “Leisure” demanding are ranked top 2 in the keyword of interest among expats group, with a relatively significant share 71%. Meanwhile nearly half share especially in “Service” request indicates expats people stay focused on healthier, higher quality lifestyle with a big effort of getting into the mainstream of Chinese society during 5 years.

The bad news, high demand of seeking “job” and “visa” solution is implying both internal and external “troubles” that expats have to face, China has constantly leveled up the entrance barrier for foreign talents in recent years, means the golden

“Hey, I heard ecommerce is growing fast in China, people prefer online shopping, right? I have some good products and then invite IT guys to build up an online platform, let’s make ecommerce happened.” This is a true story that we frequently get such kind of request from foreign entrepreneurs. Before we say “Go” or “No Go”, it’s better to try thinking what’s the foundation of ecommerce, in another word what we have to keep in mind when we start a new ecommerce business?

Generally speaking, China E-commerce has been developing for 20 years. Nowadays no matter how big the promotion in marketing activities, in fact it's a false surface that covers the truth, marketing should be not everything of ecommerce. Back to 20 years ago, the fundamental setup is considered as a more valuable reference to newbie entrepreneurs. A full picture of ecommerce business cons